The importance of traffic rules is undeniable.

I want to live in this fantasy land where strangers sheepishly admit they were wrong when their error is pointed out by a hero jumping onto their personal property and beating them in the head.

Right lmao, i don’t see how many so many people think this is real. If some guy jumped on the back of your bike and started hitting you, no way is everyone just backing up in unison

Nah it’s real. Guy posts daily reels of it. Not everyone is polite about it, but everyone gives up with enough bops. It helps him that the community cheers him on and boos anyone who fights back.

Even staged is relaxing

Need this at every intersection. So many people don’t stop at the line. I get creeping up after stopping if you can turn on red but otherwise, stop at the line and stay there until the green light. Not hard.

School drop-off needs this kind of enforcement

Living right next to an elementary school has been an incredible discovery in poor planning. Every morning and afternoon, a mob of monsters show up and make my neighborhood entirely unnavigable.

That’s because so many parents prefer to drive their kids rather than have them take the bus to the point some schools stop offering bus pickup

My school district has been cutting bus routes, not because they dont have enough busses, but because they cannot hire enough drivers. Also, kids are being picked up as early as 6am for class that starts at 8am. That’s a ridiculous amount of time to waste sitting on a bus.

I’m middle aged and still have a seething hatred for my bus driver. The route was fairly long but this woman drove 25mph the entire way. School got out at 3:05pm and the last kid was dropped off around 5:30. The mornings were just as bad. I personally got home around 4:15 every day. There would be a line of thirty cars trapped behind her because it was double yellow for the majority of the road. This was in the sticks too so there was hardly any traffic but if you spend an hour on a road going 25mph when you should be doing 50 then they build up. Sometimes, for about a week, there would mysteriously appear a device bolted to the front above the door. All the kids said it was a timer. This woman would go down roads that she only rarely needed to go down because the kid that lived down there would ride the bus once in a while. She’d drive extra slow that week, and go down all the potential roads, stop despite there being no kid getting out, and open and close the door several times before continuing. As an adult I realize the reason she drove like that was to ride the clock and draw a bigger paycheck. This fucking cunt SEVERELY negatively impacted the lives of about 60 kids because she wanted an extra $10 per day. She was a massive disciplinarian cunt too. She forbade us from having pencils out because she didn’t want us to poke holes in the seats. You couldn’t even use the time efficiently.

Appreciate the use of cunt, I know it can be hard for Americans (assuming you are one)

Fucking pay them more and maybe give them more supports? Kids are barely human at school. The bus is the fucking jungle. I’m a teacher and I can’t imagine the Hunger Games battle that is a bus driver’s daily routine.

If I could vote to do that, I would. Not sure about the other people in my area.

Agreed, I’ve heard waaaay too many bad stories and fights on buses, it’s awful at every school I went to. Lots of fights, lots of bullying, even sexual assault once that turned into a big thing.

All I know is that I used to love throwing my lunch at cars out of the short bus window.

I think if kids cannot get to school safely by themselves, via some combination of walking, biking, or public transit, that’s a failure of society. And I’m not counting the school bus in “public transit.” The fact that we apparently need a whole parallel transit system just to get kids to school and back is itself an indictment.

I just read a story about a district in Ohio? that needed to use all available school busses to prioritize transporting charter school kids because that was the way that the contracts were written. They were giving public school kids, public bus vouchers until there was an incident, because of course there was. Now there is no school busses for public school kids, and the legislature made it illegal for the district to fund putting kids on public busses. No solution in sight.

No disagreement there. But it is what it is. In the town I grew up in, there was no bus that wasn’t for taking kids to school. If you were an adult, you either walked or had a car.

For middle school first class started at 8:30AM but I had to be on the bus by 7:15. This was in a smallish town. Always one of the scrawniest and youngest kids in my grade too. So I never knew when the ride to school would turn into Lord of the Flies.

Where does that leave kids who rely on the bus, though? I dont understand how we can require them to go to school but not provide transportation.

This is America, they’re expected to figure it out.

Maybe if the neighborhood wasn’t built to be so sprawling.

The sprawl is not the cause. Neighborhoods have been that way since the 1960s. The bus route cutting has only been in the last 6 years. Q.E.D.

The debt is catching up. It’s the sprawl.

Okay buddy, blame the thing that’s been that way for 75 years, not the more recent changes like budget cuts.

He’s not wrong. All those suburbs built 75 years ago have expensive street, sewer, water, etc. replacements due. All of those costs scale with the distance between houses, but the tax base doesn’t really scale that way. So the result is squeezed suburban budgets.

The thing about sprawl is it keeps sprawling. The other thing about sprawl is it keeps requiring maintenance. So when you sprawl, you multiply your future sprawl, and you multiply your future maintenance costs. You end up with exponential costs for a multiplying population. The tax revenue doesn’t keep up. https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0

So what i did that as a kid everyday and made my lunch in the morning for the the bus stop by 7

I don’t think I know a single parent who wouldn’t be happy if the school bus picked up their kids instead of having to drive them. The reason so many parents drive is because in my state, if the child lives within a 1.5 mile distance from a school, they’re not entitled to bus service. This was decided when there was an expectation that the children should walk every day, but I don’t know any parent in 2025 who is going to send their six year-old on a 1.5 mile hike on a sunny day, much less a day when it’s snowing or freezing or pouring rain.

When my kids were in elementary school parents would drive them from two blocks away. In good weather. I hated bad weather days because it was just a complete cluster. Pickup was worse. If we had an appointment it was still easier to walk because they’d line up two hours before school got out and take all the parking spaces.